Hello
I got tagged by beaar so I have to write 20 things about me, It took a while.........
1. My dogs rule my life!
2. I only own 2 pairs of pants Black & Jeans.
3. I dont have any skirts or shorts
4. I go to McDs with a friend every Saturday and get a happy meal (mainly for the toys)
5. I drive a Pulsar 2005 (which I cant afford)
6. I have 17gb of music on the computer and 7gb of skate DVDs
7. The computer is only 33gb
8. My favourite colours are Hot Pink and Black
9. I dont function right in the morning until I have a coffee
10. I love Caesar salad
11. I never eat breakfast, I never have time to
12. I dont like swimming at the beach if theres sea weed around (I hate the feeling)
13. I have never left Australia
14. Ive never broken a bone
15. I use to hate scary movies but now I love them
16. I want to get my tongue pieced but Im scared that I will bite my tongue off
17. The next piecing I will get is the lip
18. I quit smoking and took up drinking because its ok to have a couple of smokes if you drunk
19. I used to work on Dunk Island (it was fantastic!!!)
20. I hate thinking of things to write about myself
Thanks beaar
Now I pass this on to INDETERMINATE, ELZOMO, JOGU and Oirin
M
I got tagged by beaar so I have to write 20 things about me, It took a while.........
1. My dogs rule my life!
2. I only own 2 pairs of pants Black & Jeans.
3. I dont have any skirts or shorts
4. I go to McDs with a friend every Saturday and get a happy meal (mainly for the toys)
5. I drive a Pulsar 2005 (which I cant afford)
6. I have 17gb of music on the computer and 7gb of skate DVDs
7. The computer is only 33gb
8. My favourite colours are Hot Pink and Black
9. I dont function right in the morning until I have a coffee
10. I love Caesar salad
11. I never eat breakfast, I never have time to
12. I dont like swimming at the beach if theres sea weed around (I hate the feeling)
13. I have never left Australia
14. Ive never broken a bone
15. I use to hate scary movies but now I love them
16. I want to get my tongue pieced but Im scared that I will bite my tongue off
17. The next piecing I will get is the lip
18. I quit smoking and took up drinking because its ok to have a couple of smokes if you drunk
19. I used to work on Dunk Island (it was fantastic!!!)
20. I hate thinking of things to write about myself
Thanks beaar
Now I pass this on to INDETERMINATE, ELZOMO, JOGU and Oirin
M
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When I was teenager we would often camp on the beach and build a large bonfire and when the sun went down we would let the fire die down and start walking naked over the coals while everyone stood around howling, it was very emotionally charging, yes a very vivid experience. Then again any excuse to get naked.
This all started as a dare one weekend from one of the girls in our group, and because no one had the balls to do it she went ahead and did it (she had read about the Fijians doing it) the naked part was because we had all been skinny dipping in the ocean and she had a towel on, which she took off before walking over the fire. It became a bit of a ritual after that.
It was the summer of 86 on a beach in far north Queensland called Ella Bay near Innisfail about 100kms south of Cairns, there was about 10-15 of us and the drink of the day was 'West Coast coolers'
The full moon hedonistic ritual of a group of disenchanted small town youths growing up within the puritanical Judeo-Christian confines of rural Australia, it was both rebellious and liberating and I very much miss it.
No I don't remember anyone ever getting hurt during a fire walk; they do them at business seminars today just a see 'Tony Robbins' website.
It was a very magical time in our lives, we did try to recapture the experience when a group of us went back to that beach with our partners and kids a couple of years back, we performed the same ritual and had a lot of fun and yes we all howled at the full moon yet somehow it was not the same, one can never recapture the innocence of youth, that special time between childhood and adulthood when one is truly free of responsibilities and the cares of the world and can really enjoy the moment without inhibitions. Yet we never stop trying.
I will say this, it was a defining moment in our lives and one that broke the chains that bound our parents to closed minded attitudes about sex and morality. The most profound effect was not realised by us until we went back to that little bay and we had the pleasure of seeing that same girl who started this ritual introduce it to her daughter, I knew then that we had in our own small way changed the world we lived in.
That you too could have such memories is also my wish, but then I am sure you will if you care to look back when the time is right.
mmmm perhaps this is what they mean by the power of one, just a thought....
BTW you were only 4 yo in 86 and probably have never even heard of west coast coolers or mondo rock, redgum and gangajang.